Well...
A person cannot nominate themselves for the prize. It has to come from someone else. For the Peace Prize this includes these groups -
1. Members of national assemblies and governments of states;
2. Members of international courts;
3. University rectors; professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology; directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes;
4. Persons who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize;
5. Board members of organizations who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize;
6. Active and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; (proposals by members of the Committee to be submitted no later than at the first meeting of the Committee after February 1);
7. Former advisers appointed by the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
The nomination process is here:
http://nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/process.html
The press release is here:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/p...009/press.html
We'll see if he lives up to the honor or not. Only history will be able to tell on that.